Super-observant readers with sharp memories may remember me pushing music video director Dougal Wilson quite a while ago.
The director has worked with lots of British acts, but mostly those groups aren’t huge over here: Dizzee Rascal, the Streets, Jarvis Cocker. Wilson just graduated to the big time though. His latest clip is for the new Coldplay single, “Life in Technicolor II,” off the group’s very solid EP, “Prospekt’s March.”
Below, check out that clip. Also, I’ve put up Fleet Foxes two-song performance from the Jan. 17 “Saturday Night Live.”
Coldplay — “Life in Technicolor II” — Video
Pure and simple, this video is great fun. The premise: A grade school class watching a puppet show gets treated to some stadium rock theatrics, confusing a priest and parents but enchanting one girl. The fact that someone came up with an idea like this, and that a group as big as Coldplay signed off on it, is alone enough to make me smile.
Fleet Foxes — “Mykonos” and “Blue Ridge Mountains” — On SNL
Fleet Foxes were recipients of the SNL bump thanks to their performance. As of today, the group’s Sub Pop Records debut is at No. 8 on iTunes album chart. And yet, this very fine track, “Mykonos,” one of the group’s best, isn’t on that album. Nope, it’s on the “Sun Giant” EP, which is chilling at No. 45 on the iTunes chart right now. Both albums are worth picking up.
To have true indie cred, you must play a mediocre song when given the chance to perform in front of millions. And so here, Fleet Foxes perform the admirable-but-middling “Blue Ridge Mountains.” The group could have gone with a surefire winner, like “White Winter Hymnal” or “He Doesn’t Know Why,” but wouldn’t that just have been a bit obvious?
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